Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!news!sn-xit-03!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Daniel A. Morgan" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Access or no Access? That's the question Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 00:29:39 +0000 Organization: EXE Message-ID: <3C5C8473.7A1D37AA@exesolutions.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@ava46.drizzle.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 26 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:76044 X-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 01:30:22 MST (news.easynews.com) Using Access to front-end an Oracle database is, in my opinion, one step forward from using 3x5 cards. And even that is questionable. Get yourself someone that can evaluate front-end tools with respect to your needs and get something you actually use for more than just an kluge. Daniel Morgan Tom wrote: > Dear all, > > My company want to build a Windows Database Client to connect to Linux > Oracle 8i. I am familar to Access. We are thinking to use Access to build a > Windows Client quick to connect to Linux Oracle. > > The other problems are we are going to eventually to build a Linux Client. > Obviously, Access will have problem. What is the best tool to develop a > Linux Client? And in order to build a multi-platform client, which tool is > the best? > > Thanks in advance > Tom